1950

Le Corbusier

Chandigarh Capital Complex     Chandigarh

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Governor's Palace   2177
Tower of Shadows   2186
Museum of Knowledge   2185
House of Ill Repute 001   2339
House of Shadows Bye   2366
Le Composites   2380

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Unbuilt Chandigarh
Le Corbusier's capital complex at Chandigarh is a modern, though incomplete, realization of the same kind of governing precinct/residence as Schinkel's Residence for a Prince. Both designs strive to use architecture as a vehicle towards higher human aspirations. Like Schinkel's project, the Chandigarh complex was, as planned, to incorporate a numbers of special buildings and monuments. The building that were built include: the High Court, the Legislative Assembly, the Secretariat, and the Monument of the Open Hand. The Monument to the Martyrs is incomplete. The unexecuted parts of the capital include: the Governor's Palace, the Water Courts in front of the Governor's Palace, the Gardens behind the Governor's Palace, the Monument to 24 solar hours, the Tower of Shadows , and the Depth of Consideration.
Quondam is in the process of constructing 3-d computer models of unbuilt Chandigarh.
seeking precedents... ...finding inspiration

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